On July 9, Thanh Hoa Provincial Inspectorate announced the inspection conclusion on the compliance with legal regulations on anti-corruption, negativity and practicing thrift and combating wastefulness; compliance with legal regulations on financial revenue and expenditure management at Nga Son General Hospital (period 2024-2025).
According to the inspection conclusion, besides some achieved results, the Thanh Hoa Provincial Inspectorate pointed out many shortcomings and violations that need to be rectified.
In publicity and transparency, the hospital has not listed prices for medical examination and treatment services; prices for care and support services as required on the unit's electronic information page as prescribed.
Notably, in the 2024-2025 period, Nga Son General Hospital implemented 16 bidding packages with a total budget of more than 133.7 billion VND, including 9 bidding packages for purchasing equipment, medical supplies, testing chemicals and 7 bidding packages for purchasing drugs.
The Inspectorate determined that 5/16 bidding packages were late in posting contractor selection plans; 11/16 bidding packages were late in posting contractor selection results on the National Bidding Network System. In particular, all 16/16 bidding packages did not update the progress and contract implementation results of contractors as prescribed.
In personnel organization work, as of December 31, 2025, the hospital has 290 employees, 144 fewer than the approved target of 434 people. The number of department and division management staff is not guaranteed according to norms; some departments and divisions simultaneously do not have heads and deputy heads, such as the Department of Dentistry - Maxillofacial - Ophthalmology, Department of Traditional Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Regarding the reappointment of leading and managerial officials, the hospital will reappoint 10 cases in 2024 and 14 cases in 2025. However, the reappointment dossier has not yet received written opinions from the Standing Committee of the Party Committee on personnel proposed for reappointment according to regulations.
In practicing thrift and combating wastefulness, the hospital has not developed a program for practicing thrift and combating wastefulness; when developing internal spending regulations, it has not sent drafts to the Department of Health for comments, and has not sent them to higher-level management agencies and financial agencies at the same level for monitoring and supervision. The regulations have also not updated some new regulations, and still apply expired documents.
Regarding public assets, the hospital has not liquidated 4 damaged medical equipment that cannot be repaired. The unit signed a contract to lease public assets for parking and catering services before the Department of Health approved the project to exploit and use public assets. In the 2024-2025 period, the hospital will not organize auctions for packages for leasing public assets for parking, catering, and convenience store services.
In financial revenue and expenditure management, in 2025, the hospital deducted 1.146 billion VND from the Career Development Fund, a shortage of 165.6 million VND compared to the minimum level according to regulations. Some expenditures from the Commendation Fund and Welfare Fund have also not ensured regulations.
The Inspectorate also pointed out that the hospital's estimate was not realistic. In 2024, payments to individuals reached 1.63 billion VND out of an estimate of 879 million VND, reaching 185%, while the group of goods and services only reached 55%. On April 16, 2026, the hospital paid more than 3.284 billion VND to the State budget.
Units depositing money for medical examination and treatment insurance according to term deposit contracts at commercial banks, not yet periodically deposited into the State Treasury for management according to regulations.
Regarding financial obligations, Thanh Hoa Provincial Inspectorate determined that the hospital declared revenue from operations and service business insufficient, leading to a shortage of value-added tax payable of VND 106,309,500, including VND 52,999,500 in 2024 and VND 53,310,000 in 2025. The Chief Inspector of the province issued a decision to recover this amount, and the hospital has paid enough.
This is not the first time Nga Son General Hospital has been pointed out for shortcomings and violations. Previously, the inspection conclusion was announced in January 2022, Thanh Hoa Provincial Inspectorate once pointed out some violations at Nga Son District General Hospital in receiving, purchasing, and using equipment, supplies, means for epidemic prevention and COVID-19 testing.
Nga Son General Hospital is a public non-business unit, a general hospital of grade II, with a scale of 300 beds, and an actual bed of 320. The unit has 290 employees, including 275 civil servants and 15 contract workers.
